ALEX Resources

Title: Fact or Fiction: Learning About Worms Using Diary of a Worm
Description:
Students often believe that fiction writers make everything up, seldom realizing how research worms its way into entertaining writing. In this lesson, students read Diary of a Worm to find out how fact merges with fiction.
Standard(s): [ELA2015] (2) 32: Tell a story or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking audibly in coherent sentences. [SL.2.4]

Subject: Language ArtsTitle: Fact or Fiction: Learning About Worms Using Diary of a Worm Description: Students often believe that fiction writers make everything up, seldom realizing how research worms its way into entertaining writing. In this lesson, students read Diary of a Worm to find out how fact merges with fiction.Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThinkGrade Span: K,1,2

Title: Learning About Word Families with Click, Clack, Moo
Description:
Using text from Doreen Cronin's Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type as shared readings, first-grade students learn word families and how to decode new words in a word family.
Standard(s): [ELA2015] (2) 7: Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot. [RL.2.7]

Title: It's Too Loud in Here! Teamwork in the Classroom
Description:
Students work with their peers to develop classroom rules.
Standard(s): [ELA2015] (2) 10: Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text. [RI.2.1]

Title: A Getting-Acquainted Activity Using My Teacher's Secret Life
Description:
Students build classroom community as they get to know each other and their teacher better by sharing what they like to do outside school.
Standard(s): [ELA2015] (2) 28: Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question. [W.2.8]

Title: Catching the Bug for Reading Through Interactive Read-Alouds
Description:
Students learn about story structure, new vocabulary, and a variety of reading strategies by participating in an interactive read-aloud of Miss Bindergarten Stays Home From Kindergarten by Joseph Slate.
Standard(s): [ELA2015] (2) 32: Tell a story or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking audibly in coherent sentences. [SL.2.4]

Subject: Language ArtsTitle: Catching the Bug for Reading Through Interactive Read-AloudsDescription: Students learn about story structure, new vocabulary, and a variety of reading strategies by participating in an interactive read-aloud of Miss Bindergarten Stays Home From Kindergarten by Joseph Slate.Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThinkGrade Span: K,1

Title: Book Sorting: Using Observation and Comprehension to Categorize Books
Description:
Students utilize their reading and writing skills as they think critically in order to sort books in multiple ways.
Standard(s): [ELA2015] (0) 14: Identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book. [RI.K.5]